As the Twig is Bent, so Grows the Tree - What to look for in children to help them always be a step ahead.

When I was a kid, my mother, who learned from her mother would tell me (sometimes daily) to suck in my belly and stand up straight.  It was usually uncomfortable to do and I didn’t understand why the suggestion regularly begot the exaggerated and dramatic rolling of eyes. 

Her perspective was that when you stood up tall and straight, you looked and behaved like a “lady”.  She never seemed to mind the worms in my pockets or the fish guts under my fingernails as much as she minded - my slouching.

I should have known that my mother was onto something.

There’s a reason that animals in the wild favor a mate with a vibrant build and a strong, healthy posture.  Rabbits, Ducks, Lions and birds, just to name a few, innately understand that a healthy posture is the thumbprint marking to the likely-hood of better health outcomes and a longer,...

Spring time awakens and re-births so much sleeping beauty, this innate grace goes unnoticed until everything starts to bud, until the most delicate greens begin to stretch their bodies from the ground and …. until the dormant trees come back to life and start to release their pollen.

The amazement of Spring, for a lot of people turns into the brain fog and watery gaze of counting the days until the pollens, molds and dust mites transmorph into anything that can show up as different and “could the next month and season please get here”…..because breathing from the nose and not gauging at our itchy eyes is not too much to ask for.

Why is it that some of us go through spring in la la land like chirping birds and some of us are afraid to go outside because we can’t stay on top of our allergies and we live in Spring misery?

We’ve been taught to blame it on the trees, grasses and pollens but let’s give these guys a break. If the buds and the...